AML KYA Officer - AIFM

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Role: AML KYA Officer - AIFM

Department: Portfolio Management
Role Location: Valencia

Employment Type: Permanent

Role Summary:
As an AML / KYA Officer within the Portfolio Management team, you will play an important role in supporting investment activities by ensuring robust AML, KYC, and Know Your Asset (KYA) due diligence across counterparties and investment opportunities. Working closely with Portfolio Managers, Investment Advisors, Compliance, and Risk teams, you will be responsible for reviewing and assessing due diligence information, identifying and mitigating potential risks, maintaining accurate records, and providing expert guidance on AML and KYA matters.

This is an excellent opportunity for a detail-oriented professional who enjoys working at the intersection of compliance and investments, contributing to a strong risk culture while helping facilitate efficient and compliant portfolio management within a leading global financial services organisation.

Key Responsibilities:

• Review and screen counterparties.
• Work closely with investment advisors to assess the KYC/AML information and follow up for missing information.
• Maintenance of KYC information in the AIFM records.
• Working closely with the Compliance team to solve the issues if escalations have been identified.
• Manage outstanding queries/investigations and requests.
• Assisting management in setting up and maintaining internal KPIs and KYC/AML, and risk rating tools.
• Monitor the innovations in KYA, both in terms of regulatory obligations and requirements as well as industry-standards.
• Ensure urgent, sensitive matters are escalated appropriately.
• Acting as point of escalation for the Portfolio Management Team or any AML/KYA related queries.

Skills & Experience needed:

• Academic background in Accounting/Finance/Economics or comparable studies.
• Previous experience of 1-2 years in Compliance, AML/KYC is preferred, ideally within an investment funds, AIFM, asset management, or regulated financial services environment.
• Good understanding of AML and KYA Principles.
• Excellent communication, analytical and critical thinking skills with high client and service orientation.
• Ability to multi-task, highly motivated, driven and focused with a desire for new challanges.
• Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint, knowing how to use Factiva would be an asset.
• You are fluent in English (Knowledge of French and/or German will be considered an asset together with any other EU languages)
  

What you will get in return:

• Private health insurance
• Hybrid Working model
• 27 working days holiday + Public holidays
• Opportunities for professional development.
• Professional Development (CPD) and Study Guidance programs
• Positive and hospitable work environment.
• Opportunity to work with a diverse, agile and global team.
• Exposure to all aspects of the business and cross-jurisdiction. A genuinely unique opportunity to be part of an expanding large global business + more

At Apex Group, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. In Spain, this includes our obligation under the LGD to ensure that people with disabilities are represented within our teams. If you have a recognised disability (≥33%), we welcome your application and will provide reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process.

As a vital team member and in return for your expertise, inclusive approach and commitment, we'll provide a favourable salary and the chance to join a passionate and welcoming team. Benefits As a truly global business, we tailor benefits to each location to safeguard our people and respect local cultures and ways of working. Our people are our greatest asset, and we invest in talent development. Join our global network, and you will benefit from education support, sponsorship and in-house training programs.

Disclaimer: Unsolicited CVs sent to Apex (Talent Acquisition Team or Hiring Managers) by recruitment agencies will not be accepted for this position. Apex operates a direct sourcing model and where agency assistance is required, the Talent Acquisition team will engage directly with our exclusive recruitment partners.

Our Story

About Apex Group

We are dedicated to driving positive change in financial services while fuelling the growth and ambitions of asset managers, allocators, financial institutions, and family offices. Established in Bermuda in 2003, the Group has continually disrupted the asset serving industry through our investment in innovation and talent. Today, we set the pace in asset servicing and stand out for our unique single-source solution and unified cross asset-class platform which supports the entire value chain, harnesses leading innovative technology, and benefits from cross-jurisdictional expertise delivered by a long-standing management team and over 13,000 highly integrated professionals.

We’re a people-powered business, and our people are full of ambition. Together, we’re inspired to lead the new era of data and tech enabled service. Bringing new products and services to market. Sharpening our client focus. Disrupting the market to exceed expectations. Innovating across a range of specialisms. With our focus on making a difference to our people, our planet and our society, you’ll experience more here than you would at most other companies.

Working at Apex

Prepare to accelerate.

We’re a people-powered business with a vision to inspire a new era of service-led FinTech. We’re expanding globally and offering more to our clients. This means you get more opportunities to grow with us. So prepare to accelerate. We’ll make sure the time and effort you put in takes you further, faster.

The journey is yours to own.